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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach to address my question in respect of super junior Ministers.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Exactly.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I echo all of those sentiments. I would also like the Taoiseach to answer the question in terms of the allowance for the third super junior Minister. Is it true that this legislation will be brought forward, when will that happen and how on earth does the Taoiseach justify it? I ask the Taoiseach please to answer that question this time.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is no secret that the Taoiseach has been hostile to the idea of rent freezes and bans on evictions. During the election campaign he cited legal advice saying that a rent freeze would not be possible. We all know that this turned out not to be the case. Leaving that aside, I asked the Taoiseach if the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government would agree to briefing Opposition...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like to know whether this Government co-ordination Cabinet committee met in advance of last night's Cabinet meeting. With regard to the green list, it was very clear that yesterday the Tánaiste acted as a critic of his own Government, or at the very least of his Government colleague, in telling the media it was wrong to send out mixed messages about international travel. In...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic and Social Council. [16817/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The National Economic and Social Council, NESC, published a paper last month on the implications of Covid-19 for housing in Ireland. The paper argues that the crisis demonstrates the capacity of Government to take swift and decisive action. It adds that the introduction of legislation to ban evictions and rent increases and in securing additional accommodation for homeless households is the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for the answer. It is a very welcome development that the North-South Ministerial Council will meet next week. I hope the value of the forum is now widely understood. It is true to say the North-South Ministerial Council and the all-Ireland infrastructure has been neglected for quite some time. I hope the Taoiseach's engagement with the institutions in the North and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course that ought to be the case. It is no great surprise that Sinn Féin and I are very much seeking to advance the case of an all-Ireland approach. I hope the Taoiseach will take my comment in the spirit in which it is intended because this is a constructive observation. The Taoiseach cannot on one hand look to the North and say we can see what it has done because Britain has a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach is a disaster.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I remember.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the First Minister and deputy First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. [16816/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is about the right people quarantining.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should be accurate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I ask the Taoiseach about the HIQA report into nursing homes which contained some very damning observations. It is absolutely apparent that nursing homes did not conform to any satisfactory level of clinical governance and were left without the human and practical resources necessary to protect residents and staff. We know how all of this ended. It ended with many people losing their lives...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: We must do the work now and throughout August to ensure this committee can speedily work in order we learn the lessons and the families affected have some platform for their real experiences to be recorded and responded to.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Government have an intervention for those families?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach his Government’s handling of the issue of international travel. There is absolute public confusion and a lack of public confidence in the Government’s whole approach which has been marked as cack-handed and, frankly, operating on a wing and a prayer. Yesterday the Taoiseach was at odds with the Tánaiste, and the confusion between the two...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope that the Tánaiste desists from the type of sniping that the Taoiseach has described. We need an all-island approach, and I hope that the North-South Ministerial Council meeting next week will provide an opportunity for Dublin to step forward, stop being passive, and to champion that very approach. Our position is well known within the five party Executive, which is that we need...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is wrong.